k3 on fire?

[Brett gazdzinski-2]

Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
K3 production?

What next, a plague of locusts?
Floods?
Giant earthquake?

Something is likely to delay my K3, I just know it...

While dropping stuff off at ups today, they wont take
packages to many places in California...

Brett
N2DTS


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[Julian, G4ILO]

Just hope no Elecraft staff members are among those whose homes have
been lost or are threatened by the fires. A quarter of a million
people have been evacuated, according the BBC. That must have taken
some doing.

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On 10/23/07, Brett gazdzinski <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
> K3 production?
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[Doug Faunt N6TQS [phone]]

It's a different part of California.  The weather in Aptos is good.
Fires aren't a big problem over there; floods and mudslides are more likely
to be an issue, and we're having great weather in Northern California.

73, doug

   Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:58:50 -0400
   From: Brett gazdzinski <[hidden email]>
   Thread-index: AcgVjZpRse0uIvWSSEerlzT5Jqu3Dw==

   Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
   K3 production?

   What next, a plague of locusts?
   Floods?
   Giant earthquake?

   Something is likely to delay my K3, I just know it...

   While dropping stuff off at ups today, they wont take
   packages to many places in California...

   Brett
   N2DTS


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[Kenneth E. Harker]

    Aptos, CA (home of Elecraft) is in northern California, on
Monterrey Bay, about a half hour drive south of San Jose and Silicon
Valley.   The current big fires in the news are near San Diego in far
southern California, about 700 kilometers south of Aptos.


On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Julian G4ILO wrote:

> Just hope no Elecraft staff members are among those whose homes have
> been lost or are threatened by the fires. A quarter of a million
> people have been evacuated, according the BBC. That must have taken
> some doing.
>
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> On 10/23/07, Brett gazdzinski <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
> > K3 production?
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[Brett gazdzinski-2]

 
Glad the fire is not close.
Hope there are no hams living in the area but I am sure there are
with that many people involved....

Maybe the factory that makes the boards, or the metal bits
is in the fire? The printers of the manuals?

Looking at Aptos on mapquest, I hope it does not move north
a few feet suddenly, I think its overdue to...
 

Brett





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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

None of our main vendors are in the fire area, fortunately.

73, Eric  WA6HHQ
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Brett gazdzinski wrote:
> Glad the fire is not close.
> Hope there are no hams living in the area but I am sure there are
> with that many people involved....
>
> Maybe the factory that makes the boards, or the metal bits
> is in the fire? The printers of the manuals?
>  
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[Richard-3]

For those interested in the Southern California fires:

http://tinyurl.com/2topkd  "Green" fires are contained, "Red" fires are not.  From the LA Times.  

http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/nfn.htm  National Fire Information Center.

California is about 770 Miles/1239 km north to south and 250 Miles/402 km east to west, depending on where you take the measurements.  Fires are in the south.  

Aptos is about 450 highway miles north of San Diego, and about 400 highway miles south of the Oregon border according to Google map directions.  The state stretches from 124.2 to 114.1 degrees west and from 42.0 to 32.5 degrees north.  Aptos is at about 37.0 north latitude and 121.9 west longitude.

Rich
NU6T

-----Original Message-----

>From: Julian G4ILO <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Oct 23, 2007 9:10 AM
>To: elecraft <[hidden email]>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] k3 on fire?
>
>Just hope no Elecraft staff members are among those whose homes have
>been lost or are threatened by the fires. A quarter of a million
>people have been evacuated, according the BBC. That must have taken
>some doing.
>
>--
>Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392  K3 s/n: ???
>G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com
>Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf
>
>
>On 10/23/07, Brett gazdzinski <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
>> K3 production?
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[k6dgw]

Brett gazdzinski wrote:
> Are the big fires in California going to disrupt
> K3 production?

As states go, and except for the Republic of Texas and State of Alaska,
the California Republic is huge N-S, and pretty big E-W.  On I-5, the
exit numbers begin at the Mexican border and they are the number of
miles North.  Exit numbers at about the latitude of Aptos are in the
upper 400's [I-5 doesn't get close to Aptos], and I believe the last
exit before Oregon [a little burg called Hilt, with emphasis on the
"little"] is 795 or maybe 797.  From our place near Sacramento, it's an
8+ hour drive to the northern outskirts of Los Angeles [speed limit is
70, actual speed is more like 85, especially past the 100,000 head feed
lot at Harris Ranch], and maybe another 3 or 4 to San Diego.  The Oregon
state line is maybe a 7 hour drive from here.  So, unless they have
suppliers in the mountains in So. Cal., the fires are not a problem for
the E-Boys and Girls.

>
> What next, a plague of locusts?

I doubt it, not much for them to eat in Silicon Valley.

> Floods?

Mud slides at times and in isolated places and almost always over a
heavy commute road, usually following the previous year's big fire and
this year's torrential rains.  Fortunately, it's 85, clear, and calm in
Auburn as I write this, and probably in the 70's in Aptos.  Not much
rain yet, and what we've had hasn't been even remotely close to torrential.

> Giant earthquake?

The [in]famous San Andreas Fault runs sort of under San Francisco Bay.
There are numerous other smaller faults too that create most of the
earthquakes we might feel.  Google "Parkfield CA" and pick the second
hit for info.  There is a National Park [name escapes me but I've been
there] on State Route 25 that has a bunch of craggy peaks astride the SA
Fault.  It's actually only half of them ... the other half remain
anchored to North America down in S. Cal. near Palm Springs.

Fortunately for us [and for your K3] ... big, disaster-causing
earthquakes are rare.  OTOH, "tornado alley" sees them each year, and
"hurricane alley" likewise.  Eventually, Aptos will probably end up next
to the Alaskan Panhandle, but not likely in my or anyone else's
lifetime.  I wonder what Elecraft will have designed and be selling then?

> While dropping stuff off at ups today, they wont take
> packages to many places in California...

But UPS and the US Postal Service will take stuff from CA for anywhere
else.  I think that's what counts.
>
> Brett
> N2DTS

73,

Fred K6DGW
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